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Poster: | kracher | Date: | Mar 21, 2021 3:00pm |
Forum: | texts | Subject: | Book Spines |
When I look at the physical books I own, I look at their spines first.
But we cannot do this for Internet Archive ebooks, because their spines are not scanned or photographed.
Would it not be possible to take a picture of a book's spine when it is being scanned, and add that to the images stored for it ?
Would it also be possible to take a single photo with the spines of a lot of books already scanned and in the archive, and split that up by hand into a spine image for each book ?
TIA,
Kracher
[ I posted this previously in another forum, but it got no response there, retrying here. ]
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Poster: | syzygos | Date: | Apr 3, 2021 11:06am |
Forum: | texts | Subject: | Re: Book Spines |
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Poster: | syzygos | Date: | Apr 3, 2021 11:17am |
Forum: | texts | Subject: | Re: Book Spines |
(Bibliothèque Sainte Geneviève) does have images of spines in the file for each book. But I still don't see how that would help.
Look at the spine of this book for instance:
https://archive.org/details/4BB116INV328RES/mode/2up
It won't tell you anything useful.
'Nuf said
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Poster: | R Pal | Date: | Apr 4, 2021 6:01am |
Forum: | texts | Subject: | Re: Book Spines are very useful |
It would also be possible to have a "Library Shelf" feature here at the Archive. This would be a virtual view of book shelves using the scaned spines. A lot less screen space would be needed and browsing might be more enjoyable.